She has been making headlines worldwide - not only for her itsy bitsy fashion choices but also for marrying a man more than 30 years her senior.
Courtney Stodden was just 16 when she got married in a small ceremony in Las Vegas in May 2011 and she needed her mother's okay back then.
Actor Doug Hutchison was then 50 - just four years older than Stodden's father.
The 34-year age gap shocked many.
Hutchison, known for his work in the movie Green Mile and TV series Lost, received death threats that labelled him a paedophile.
His agent dropped him and his family disowned him. But these setbacks did not deter the couple.
Stodden says: "I'm happy. That's all that matters to me at the end of the day.
"As long as we aren't hurting ourselves or anyone else, I say live your life and follow your heart regardless of the opinions."
The couple's courtship had started online.
Hutchison was teaching acting classes in Los Angeles and Stodden was taking these lessons online from her home in Tacoma, Washington.
Hutchison did not realise that Stodden was a teenager when they started communicating. He had assumed from her photographs that she was in her mid-20s.
When he found out her age, he told her mother, Mrs Krista Stodden, that he would stay away if she disapproved, but she didn't.
Stodden says: "My parents monitored our online correspondence.
"When they met Doug and got to know him better, they knew that he was a great person and that they could trust him with their daughter."
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(Photos: Internet, Reuters, AFP)
